SPACE - Supporting Parents and Children Emotionally
What Is SPACE?
by Ness Little HSK Parent support coordinator
Before COVID 19 we had developed and were piloting a new group programme: SPACE - Supporting Parents and Children Emotionally. A result of an exciting collaboration between Headstart Kernow and Rockpool.
SPACE was created to help parents understand what is meant by a Trauma Informed approach and to familiarise them with the Trauma Informed language being used in schools and across organisations who are working with and supporting their children.
A programme intended for all parents SPACE aims to provide information to parents, raising awareness of trauma and how that can affect both children’s and adult’s emotional behaviour.
Adapting SPACE for the lockdown
We understand that lots of parents will be feeling worried right now, feelings that are completely normal.
To help support you during COVID-19, we have created a series of factsheets based on the SPACE sessions, designed to offer some support and strategies, whatever your situation, and are based on what we know about people’s responses to traumatic events and what can help.
Each factsheet explores how parents can better emotionally support themselves, their children, and suggests simple, tangible tools that can be used at home to benefit the whole family
Supporting Resources
All Factsheets include links to websites, blogs and video’s to help embed the messages and provide additional mediums for digesting the information.
Additionally, we have included PDF’s of postcards that along with the fact sheets can printed off to keep and refer back too. See SPACE attachments
Live Q and A sessions for parents
To further support families and complement release of the factsheets we will be running weekly Q&A Webinars for parents.
Sessions will run every Monday from 2.30pm - 3.30pm.
Links to the first 5 sessions are highlighted below
To sign up and join any of our online webinars follow the links below. Each session provides Parents with an opportunity to ask questions and talk through some of the positives as well as the challenges of parenting during lockdown.
20th April; https://rockpoollife.arlo.co/register?sgid=739f7f27f04344c2a70f6b51bf22f1f9
27th April; https://rockpoollife.arlo.co/register?sgid=7b157cddac8444ab96103a9543d0eb5c
4th May; https://rockpoollife.arlo.co/register?sgid=f5961adcebe14300a97a75ec96758b3e
11th May; https://rockpoollife.arlo.co/register?sgid=738e1773686f42158a7ff6d36f27a7cd
18th May; https://rockpoollife.arlo.co/register?sgid=c50b4dc2f73f4128843e400b886e95b4
For more information about SPACE contact Ness.Little@cornwall.gov.uk Mobile: 07483 351382
SPACE Attachments
Some indications of the fight or flight response for Boys
Some indications of the fight or flight response for Girls
Fact Sheet Two - Keeping Connected
The teenage brain and emotions
Fact Sheet Three - Understanding Resilience
The latest calendar offering from Action For Happiness – Meaningful May.
Fact Sheet Four - A nurturing Environment
Fact Sheet Five - Understanding emotions and healthy relationships